Tripo P2.0 brings clean quads, Meta announces prompt-to-game tools, Action Game Maker 2.0 enters beta

Two of this week's stories are aimed at people making their first game, and one tackles a long-standing complaint about AI 3D models. Tripo's quad-mesh model is out for everyone, Meta announced tools that build a mobile game from a description, and the RPG Maker publisher put its Godot-based action game tool into beta.

Tripo P2.0 launches with native quad meshes

Tripo's P2.0 preview from August is now fully launched. Tripo says it is the first AI 3D generator to output native quad topology, meaning the model is built from clean four-sided polygons instead of a messy pile of triangles, at up to 25K quad faces or 50K triangles. Quads matter if you want to rig, animate or hand-edit an AI asset.

The full launch adds up to four variants per prompt, Mesh Edit, which regenerates a selected region without redoing the whole asset, and one-click smart UVs (the flat layout that tells a texture how to wrap around a model). It is usable today in the browser-based Tripo Studio. Free accounts get a small monthly credit allowance, and commercial use needs a paid plan. The launch follows the roughly $446M in Series B and B+ funding Tripo announced on September 1.

Meta announces Horizon Create and Horizon Studio

At Meta Connect, Meta announced two prompt-to-game tools for 2D and 3D mobile games: Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser editor with finer controls. Meta says you describe a game in plain text and the tools generate environments, characters, mechanics, progression and multiplayer, which you can then refine and move between the two apps.

The limits: games publish to Facebook, Instagram and Horizon, and Meta has not mentioned any export. Access is early access through a waitlist that is rolling out gradually, and pricing has not been announced. For a first-timer it could be a fast route to a playable game, but you would be building inside Meta's platforms.

Action Game Maker 2.0 enters beta

Gotcha Gotcha Games, the publisher of RPG Maker, put Action Game Maker 2.0 into beta, according to GameFromScratch. The tool is built on Godot and is aimed at first-time action game makers who find raw Godot intimidating. Version 2.0 adds a simplified Maker Mode interface (with an optional Godot Mode when you want the full editor), a built-in tutorial, environment templates, a collision checker, automatic sprite sheet processing and a live debugger. The beta runs through Steam; we could not confirm pricing or how beta access works.

Also worth your time

• Convai added Scene Tagger to its Unreal Engine plugin. Convai says it scans a level, picks out significant objects and writes a name and description for each, so its AI characters can answer questions about the world and walk to things without you hand-tagging every prop. Available now in the plugin on Fab.
• Meshy published SeamFlow, a SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 paper on placing UV seams (the cuts that let a model's surface lie flat for texturing) automatically by deciding all the cuts at once. Research only, with no product timeline, but messy UVs are one of the biggest pain points with AI-generated meshes.
• Animcraft 6.0 adds AI character rigging and text-to-animation, which CG Channel reports is built on NVIDIA's Kimodo model. The AI features are priced separately, and the tool mainly suits teams already working in Maya or 3ds Max.

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